Hi, What happen when exit system call is made from. 1) main () 2) task created with pthread_create. I have written a same program as below which has a loop in main (). When pthread_exit is uncommented. main is not exiting and running in infinite loop. but it halts when i comment pthread_exit. So, i would like to understand what happens when exit is called and how does pthread_exit is effecting the behavior. void *PrintHello(void *threadid) { long tid; tid = (long)threadid; printf("Hello World! It's me, thread #%ld!\n", tid); //pthread_exit(NULL); exit(0); } int main (int argc, char *argv[]) { pthread_t threads[NUM_THREADS]; int rc; long t; for(t=0; t<NUM_THREADS; t++){ printf("In main: creating thread %ld\n", t); rc = pthread_create(&threads[t], NULL, PrintHello, (void *)t); if (rc){ printf("ERROR; return code from pthread_create() is %d\n", rc); exit(-1); } } while (1); return 0; } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ